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Wager
Raymond Barfield’s Wager is a lovely meditation on beauty, suffering, and the variety of philosophical “styles.” Everyone,…
Preparing A Place
In his Ascension Theology, Douglas Farrow insists that, if the ascension is bodily, and if Jesus ascends with all…
Value
At a recent Theopolis intensive course on political economy, James Jordan argued that only a theological treatment…
A Toast to Silence
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Matthew Walther, associate editor of the Washington Free Beacon,…
Hidden Things
Hearing the hearing of Solomon (shema is both verb and object in 2 Chronicles 9:1), Queen Sheba…
Church on the Cross
Life, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy says, is suffering, battle, pain, shock, failure, elation. Human beings are always torn, always…
A Note on the Kentucky Decision
A recent decision by the Kentucky Court of Appeals is the latest event in the five-year process Hands On…
The Holiness of Pharaoh’s Daughter
Second Chronicles 8:11 (NASB) reads: “Then Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the…
Beginning of Politics
The Beginning of Politics by Moshe Habertal and Stephen Holmes is a study of politics in the…
Work
“There is a fundamental difference,” John Milbank writes (Future of Love), “between the Biblical and the Greek…
Joy
In his commentary on Chronicles, Mark Boda notes that joy is a key theme in Chronicles. Commenting…
The Church and Civil Power
The church’s stance with regard to civil order is neatly articulated in Romans, provided we read chapters…
Limitless Liberalism
Despite its claims to the contrary, Patrick Deneen writes in a 2014 piece in The American Conservative, “liberalism…
Greatening Greatness
In David’s final speech (1 Chronicles 29), he offers a fivefold praise of God’s perfections (v. 11):…
That Old Capitalist Religion
Patrick Murray’s essay in Culmination of Capital lays out sixfold aim of Marx’s Capital: to present and…
